Ch. 296

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) The applicant shall give notice of the application and
the hearing:

(1) To the public, by publication once a week for 2
consecutive weeks before the hearing in a regularly published
newspaper of general circulation in any county or municipal
corporation that the Department determines may be affected
directly by the application;

(2) To the board of county commissioners or county
council of any county and the chief executive of any municipal
corporation that the Department determines may be affected by the
INCINERATOR FOR PUBLIC USE OR landfill system, by certified mail,
return receipt requested, bearing a postmark from the United
States Postal Service.; and

(3) To the Department of Natural Resources, by
certified mail, return receipt requested, bearing a postmark from
the United States Postal Service.

(c) The local officials notified under subsection (b)(2) of
this section shall give notice of the application and the hearing
to all interested agencies of their respective jurisdictions.

(d) The notice shall:

(1) State that there is an application for a landfill
system OR INCINERATOR FOR PUBLIC USE TO BURN SOLID WASTE pending
before the Department; and

(2) Give the date, time, and place of the hearing.

(e) At the hearing, the applicant and any other interested
person may offer evidence and present arguments for or against
the application.

(f) To the extent practicable, the Department and other
units of State government shall consolidate hearings concerning
permits for the same landfill system OR INCINERATOR FOR PUBLIC
USE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987, contingent on the taking effect of

Chapter_______of the Acts of 1987 (S.B. 323), and if Chapter_____

does not become effective, the publisher of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, the Michie Company, is directed to incorporate the
changes made by this Act into the appropriate places in the
Health - Environmental Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland
without the necessity of further action by the General Assembly.

Approved May 14, 1987.

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